Monday, October 14, 2024

utile \YOO-til\, adjective:

• Useful.

Utile comes directly from the French word of the same spelling which also means "useful." It entered English in the late 1400s.  

 

Struggle Bus 

• Used to metaphorically describe a difficult situation, as in hard schoolwork. The word struggle can also be used in conjunction with other modes of transport, describing the depth to which one is struggling(i.e. struggle scooter, struggle skateboard, struggle footwear).

Student: "Y'all, I have 6 papers and 4 tests within the next 2 weeks. Definitely on that struggle bus!"

 

Holiday

• Columbus Day (US)

Trivia
How old was Christopher Columbus when he went to sea for the first time?

• 14.

History

• Battle of Hastings: the last Anglo-Saxon king of England fell to William the Conqueror during the Norman conquest (1066)
  

  
• sound barrier: was broken for the first time by a person, United States Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager, who flew a secret experimental Bell X-1 jet at supersonic speed (1947)
• Peace Corps: the idea to send American volunteers abroad was first mentioned by JFK when he was a presidential candidate (1960)

Birthdays

• William Penn 1644 - Penn was the colonist that founded the Pennsylvania colony for Quakers.
• Dwight David Eisenhower (U.S.) 1890
• Lillian Gish 1893
• E.E. Cummings 1894
• Eugene Fodor 1905
• Allan Jones 1908
• John Wooden 1910
• C. Everett Koop 1916
• Bill Justis 1926

• Roger Moore 1927
• Robert Webber 1928
• Melba Montgomery 1938
• Ralph Lauren 1939
• Cliff Richard 1940
• Tommy Harper (MLB) 1940
• J.C. Snead 1941
• Billy Harrison (Them) 1942
• Udo Kier 1944
• Al Oliver (MLB) 1946
• Justin Hayward (The Moody Blues) 1946
• Charlie Joiner (NFL) 1947
• Marcia Barrett (Boney M) 1948
• Sheila Young 1950
• Harry Anderson 1952
• Greg Evigan 1953
• Beth Daniel 1956
• Arleen Sorkin 1956
• Thomas Dolby 1958
• Keith Byars (NFL) 1963
• Karyn White 1965
• John Seda 1970
• Jimmy Jackson 1970
• Doug Virden (Sons of the Desert) 1970
• Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks) 1974
• Shaznay Lewis (All Saints) 1975
• Usher 1978